manage systematic mortality risks, namely self-insurance and risk transfer to purchasers of the annuity products. We …, saving, and portfolio allocation patterns given stochastic and systematic mortality. Insurers have taken two approaches to … demonstrate that self-insurance leads to high loadings, so that households offered a choice would favor the risk transfer scheme …

Value at Risk has become the standard measure of market risk employed by financial institutions for both internal and … methodologies developed so far give satisfactory solutions. Interpreting Value at Risk as a quantile of future portfolio values … assumptions invoked by existing methodologies (such as normality or i.i.d. returns). The Conditional Value at Risk or CAViaR model …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the risk of trading revenues of U.S. commercial banks. We collect … quarterly data on trading revenues, broken down by business line, as well as the Value at Risk-based market risk charge. The … across business lines. These low correlations do not corroborate systemic risk concerns. Neither is there evidence that the …

place greater weight on downside risk demand additional compensation for holding stocks with high sensitivities to downside … market movements. We show that the cross-section of stock returns reflects a premium for downside risk. Specifically, stocks … that covary strongly with the market when the market declines have high average returns. We estimate that the downside risk …

markets, focusing on the US, the UK, and Japan. Our results help assess the extent to which life insurers can hedge mortality …

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has phased in the Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC) risk … beneficiary's health status. However, it is debatable whether the CMS-HCC model has led to strategic evolutions of risk selection …. We examine the competing claims and analyze the risk selection behavior of MA plans in response to the CMS-HCC model. We …

We model the equilibrium price and quantity of risk transfer between firms and financial intermediaries. Value …-maximizing firms have downward sloping demands to cede risk, while intermediaries, who assume risk, provide less …

. Dynamically spread-weighting and risk-rebalancing positions improves performance. Equity, bond, FX, volatility, and downside … of our carry trades are not significantly different from unconditional betas. Hedging with options reduces but does not …

options in defined contribution retirement plans. We document large differences in realized TDF returns and risk profiles … reflects optimal risk-taking by fund families with low market share, especially those entering the market after 2006. Using … plan-level data, we find little evidence that 401(k) plan sponsors match the risk profile of the TDFs in their plans to the …

countries, which were recommended by Athanasoulis and Shiller (2001) to facilitate risk sharing. For reasonable levels of belief … than risk sharing …While the traditional view of financial innovation emphasizes the risk sharing role of new financial assets, belief …